An Air Force boot camp instructor faced an evidentiary hearing Wednesday on charges he had sex with four women, one in a local nightclub restroom.

Staff. Sgt. Michael Wladischkin is accused of pursuing seven women in hopes of having sex. He admitted in a statement to a liaison with an airman in the restroom, but said he couldn't recall who she was because he had been drinking.

The woman, identified as Airman 3 in a charge sheet, testified she kissed him at the club, Cowboys Dancehall, but was so drunk she blacked out.

She said they might have had sex, but she couldn't remember. They later had an intimate relationship that ended after a chance encounter she had with his wife.

“I remember being at Cowboys and drinking quite a bit,” said Airman 3, a mental health technician at a West Texas base. “I can kind of remember getting in a cab when I went home.”

Prosecutors sketched a picture of an NCO out of control, drinking heavily and pursuing female trainees from July 2010 to March 2012. He twice juggled multiple relationships while married, an Air Force document showed.

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The evidentiary hearing, the latest in a series of proceedings stemming from the Air Force's worst sex scandal ever, could trigger a trial for Wladischkin, who faces four charges and 14 specifications of misconduct.

So far, 33 instructors at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland have fallen under investigation for misconduct involving 63 recruits and technical school students, all but a handful of them women.

Seven specifications lodged against Wladischkin are for alleged attempts to pursue what the Air Force calls personal, intimate and sexual relationships.

That's a violation of an Air Force rule forbidding instructors from involvement with recruits in basic training and technical school.

But he also is charged with adultery, indecent conduct for having sex in the dancehall restroom, and assault for not complying with the wishes of one woman who set conditions on how they would have sex.

The evidentiary hearing is a first step toward trial and the charges could change. Once the investigating officer, Lt. Col. Kristine Autorino, files a report, an Air Force commander will decide if a court-martial is warranted and what charges to prefer.

Like many other trainers caught up in the scandal, Wladischkin used Facebook and text messaging to strike up friendships.

One woman, Airman 6, said he alarmed her by moving quickly, telling her, “You are beautiful,” early on and later hinting at marriage.

Airman 1 said she met Wladischkin on Facebook, where he sent a photo of himself shirtless. She said they met at a local hotel during a long weekend nearly three years ago and had sex, but the relationship quickly lost steam.

Yet another airman met him at Cowboys and said they had sex once over a three-week relationship. Prosecutors and the defense sparred over when he might have known the woman, identified as Airman 6, who was in technical training.

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Airman 3 said there was no question that Wladischkin knew she was a trainee, and that she was aware he was a training instructor. They discussed the issue at the Flying Saucer, a local pub, and met six times, with Wladischkin drinking “quite a bit” whenever they got together.

Like other women who testified, she was unaware Wladischkin was married. One airman said he told an entire recruit flight he was divorced.

Airman 3 said she stopped seeing him in late spring 2011, after they had sex at two hotels. They got back together, but she broke it off for good after a chance encounter with Wladischkin's wife, an NCO who worked in the same medical facility.